puerperium

Cognitive therapy and supportive strategies are strongly encouraged to help reduce or replace medication in patients who experience depression during pregnancy and the 'puerperium' .

They hated also to have the mother out of the home during the 'puerperium' .

Common predisposing factors that require prophylaxis include surgery, immobilisation, pregnancy and the 'puerperium' , and oral contraception.

Pelvic floor exercises may be helpful in the 'puerperium' .

A significant trend to higher stage of disease was present with diagnosis later in pregnancy and the 'puerperium' .

Of these, around 200 will suffer from severe post-natal depression or the even more serious 'puerperal' psychosis.

It is used for inflammation, idiopathic or traumatic, or puerperal septicemia or 'puerperal' convulsions.

I told her about my fears of a 'puerperal' relapse.

Under this name are sometimes confounded three distinct varieties of disease - that which occurs during pregnancy, that which follows parturition and is properly 'puerperal' , and that which comes on months afterward during lactation.

An indigenous midwifery tradition never developed, and rates of infant mortality and 'puerperal' infections are high.